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The Unbeliever Kindle Edition

by Zachary J. Kitchen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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A contemporary vampire romance novel.

If faith can move mountains, what can the utter lack of faith achieve?

Major Max Bradley left his faith, along with a leg, in the sands of Iraq. Even the Marine Corps, the only thing that mattered to him, thanked him for his service and sent him on his way. Feeling abandoned, left adrift and without purpose, scotch and oxycontin became his only friends. He lives a hermit's life on a boat moored in a small coastal North Carolina town, struggling with addiction as well as the physical and emotional scars from a war that now seems pointless. He only just exists, caught between pain and despair, until one night his world and his perceived place in that world are turned upside down.

A call for help snaps him out of his drug laden fog and a chance midnight rescue brings him together with the woman who will pull him out of himself and will show him that he is more powerful than he has ever imagined.

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...masterfully develops his characters to be believable and life-like.

The Unbeliever will hold the reader's attention until the very last page.

The Unbeliever is a tale that readers will enjoy and remember. Fans of the genre should know that there are great vampire stories still available.

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5/5 star review from the Paranormal Romance Guild

Max Bradley didn't believe in anything except his training in the U.S. Marine Corps and what he could put his hands on. Plans for retirement from the service were put into motion after he lost his leg to an explosion. He goes back to the states, buys a sailboat, and begins to try to put the pieces of his live back together, gluing it with a combination of scotch and OxyContin. Then he sees a hot speed boat in the slip next to his and meets its even hotter owner, Elena. She brings with her all kinds of strange believes, magic, darkness, and swears she's a vampire; none of which Max believe in.
But it believed in him and suddenly he's propelled into a wild mission of finding the corpse of a pirate, finding the map fragment that would lead them to the secret place where the dagger that would end the life of the vampire who turned Elena.
All of Max's skills learned in his prior life would be necessary to get to the end of the mission, but will it give him the one thing he doesn't have, someone in his life forever.
I read Zachary J. Kitchen's The Unbeliever and found myself caught up in the action and things that Max and Elena managed to get into. It was interesting because I kept saying to myself "This guy knows the military and the Marine Corps, he had to have served." The way the story was put together, the references that he made to things like Gary Owen (7th Cavalry Unit Song, if you've ever seen a Custer movie, you have heard it) or the way to shoot, disassemble, and reassemble a firearm was way too specific to be done with research alone. And he knows medication and the ways it works.
And it was a vampire story. Marines and vampires, with snoopy little old ladies with pasts of their own, and a friend who practices Voodoo. And it was fabulous. The rich details of every facet of the story was woven so tightly that it kept the story flowing from the beginning to the epilogue. There is so much involved in the story, I would spoil it for you if I say much more. I found the book so good, I read a lot of it to my husband, who isn't fond of vampire stories but likes good military fiction. It was so good, I wish I could give it six stars. The Unbeliever is both, and Kitchen has made his step into the world of fiction a big one and I look forward to reading more of his work, soon.

Charlayne Elizabeth Denney
Reviewer: Paranormal Romance Guild

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00NJU09ZE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ashton Publishing Group (September 12, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 12, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1847 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 402 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1535302046

Best Sellers Rank: #1,742,143 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #10,730 in Paranormal Vampire Romance
- #16,895 in Vampire Romances
- #18,698 in Military Romance (Kindle Store)

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Zack Kitchen has had a diverse life to say the least. The third son of ten children in a poor farming family, he found that there was no money for college so , at the age of 17, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. A year later he earned an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

He always dreamed of flying so, after graduating with a B.S. in English Literature from the Academy, he went to flight school and flew for the Navy for five years as an NFO or "goose" (as the position has been known since the film "Top Gun."

After fulfilling his active duty obligation, Zack received a Navy scholarship to attend medical school and graduated from the University of Michigan School of Medicine in 2000. He trained at the Walter Reed Medical Center and the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center for internship, residency, and fellowship.

His training completed, Zack deployed to Iraq with a Forward Resuscitative Surgical System team and, often under fire, gave life and limb saving surgical and resuscitative treatment to American military, allied military, civilians, and enemy combatants alike. He holds the Combat Medic Badge from the Army and the Combat Action Ribbon from the Marines.

Returning home, Zack decided that he'd served his country enough and was missing his two daughters growing up, so he left service and joined a small private practice in the sleepy coastal town of New Bern, North Carolina. As a transplanted Yankee, it was a bit of a culture shock, but he can now say "Y'all" and "Fixin' to" in proper context. Recently diagnosed with a genetic heart defect, Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis, he has been working hard to fulfill one of his greatest dreams, being a novelist.

Every moment is a gift and he strives to make the most of each and every one.

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Ben B

Good read, interesting, fast paced and hard to put down.

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2013

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Purchased this book after reading some reviews of it on web forum. I have to say I'm very pleased! I've always found interests in the Vampire genre but so many of these types of books anymore are just romance novel smut with a vampire twist thrown in. This book does not fall into that catagory at all. The main characters both show good development in the book and how could I not like a Green Eyed, Red Head vampire? With any luck the author will continue to develop this book into somewhat of a series as I enjoyed the plot and did not find it near as predictable as some other books are these days. My biggest complaint with this book, is it was too hard for me to put down as I work shift work. I ended up reading this book well into when I should have been sleeping for a midnight shift and just could not put it down! Made for a tiresome night, but I managed to find out how it all ended.

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1LuckyGurl

Good Vampire Story

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2015

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Not sure how I came across this one not realizing what it was until I was into it but it's a vampire story. Not my cup of tea but I read and
finished it. That being said it was a good vampire story with a different perspective. Again, and I find myself writing this on most reviews, there are a lot of grammatical errors. Does anyone proof read anymore? The story about a medically discharged soldier meets up with vampire girl and of course not believing what she really is finds excitement once again with the trouble she brings to the story. There are some facts that were not thoroughly researched so don't put a whole lot of credence into everything that is written but overall a good fictional read.

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Bill

A Cross-Genre Page Turner

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2013

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I found myself drawn into and drawn along by Max's story. From the battlefield of armed combat where he fought conventional enemies to the battlefield of his mind where he fought against himself and the changes forced upon him by his chosen profession, The pull to keep reading never wavered.

Then came the Damsel in Distress. Of course, being Max, this wasn't just any Damsel...

I can tell already that I'm going to be up much too late for as long as it takes to get to the end of this page-turner.

As for why I like Max... Yes, he's good - heck, Highly Skilled in his chosen arts of combat is a better description. But, he's not a Superman. He is human and has flaws and weaknesses. He also has his personal convictions, and those are what provide his real strength.

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Great, engaging plot, but in much need of editing

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015

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I very much enjoyed this book, and normally I despair at spelling, grammar, punctuation problems, but the plot was so fully engaging I couldn't NOT read it to the end. Bravo, what a unique perspective, Mr. Kitchen! One more detail that started gnawing at me about 1/4 of the way through was the way the female lead role didn't seem nearly as intelligent as a woman of her age should be, and she seemed to keep falling into her man's arm instead of defending herself as someone as strong as she should have (and I am by no means a feminist, but strong, smart women do exist!) Very good plot, and overall I would recommend, but do be prepared to overlook some of the observations above.

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Paranormal Romance At Its Best

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2013

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I loved the hero, Max Bradley, the "The Unbeliever" who is trying to figure out where he goes from here now that he has left the Marines. He happens on a woman vampire who is being attacked by a bunch of male vampires. But Max doesn't believe in vampires and because he doesn't believe, the vampires around him become temporarily human. This book is wildly entertaining, romantic, and on top of that the author tosses in real information about elements of fighting that only a man who was a Marine would know. I can't recommend this book enough. I was blown away by this author's writing style and I had real pleasure in reading every word. Mr. Kitchen effortlessly made me feel like I was in the American South. The story is fascinating, and the characters are lifelike. Five stars.

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Miles

Overall a good read though

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2016

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An interesting take on the whole vampire novel - if extreme belief can defeat a vampire, what about extreme unbelief? Well written and entertaining, the only weak points are the seemingly random (and long) flashback to Agnes' previous encounters with vampires, and the very very rushed ending, where after a big build-up, everything is wrapped up with the "big baddie" in about 2-3 pages. Overall a good read though, well worth a browse.

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BK

The Unbeleiver - a captivating read

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2013

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This book opens in the middle of a scene that grabs your attention, from kick-off, and it never lets go of you... I kept reading and reading; I lost all concepts of time. This entire book is laced with moments of intense action and anticipation of "what's going to happen next." And yet, above all it was an extremely romantic love story. I couldnt help but to fall in love with the characters. Each one of them is so unique, and the author does a phenomenal job of portraying them, to the most specific level - beautifully bringing every one of them to life in your mind. It was such a great read - It would be a great book for a movie

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Nicki

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on September 1, 2017

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Definitely a different kind of story. A page turner, and it kept me guessing!

Ian Taylor

The Unbeliever

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2015

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Although far fetched this was still an enjoyable book with a riveting storyline. It provided me with pleasurable bedtime reading.

Kath Bourke

Quite good

Reviewed in Australia on September 5, 2015

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A few spelling mistakes but I felt the story flowed quite well. A nice twist on the vampire tale. If you like the paranormal fantasy this is well worth trying.

Penelope J

I can't believe they are vampires.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2015

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I cannot understand how the hero of this tale maintains his disbelief in the face of the proof all round him! However our disabled ex Marine continues to inflict major damage on creatures who have never had anyone fight back before. Nice story, new take, and efficiently told. I enjoyed it.

Mrs. Bruce

Too many F-words - 2.5 stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2017

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Max is an ex-marine with an artificial leg. He lives on a boat and pops pills and booze to keep the pain away.
He cannot have a conversation without using the F-word and even the girl he rescues says "why do you swear so much?"

For me, there was too much history (true or fiction?) about voodoo, vampires, human sacrifices, historical pirates, etc.
Even by 95% of the book and after seeing what the vampires could do, Max still hadn't believed in them!

There was some sex, a fair bit of violence, several typos and missed words. I would have liked more of the old lady
and the voodoo woman - both were interesting characters. Max's "special power" was never properly explored.
I give this book 2.5 stars.

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